CFReadStream

Overview

CFReadStream provides an interface for reading a byte stream either synchronously or asynchronously. You can create streams that read bytes from a block of memory, a file, or a generic socket. All streams need to be opened, using CFReadStreamOpen, before reading.

Use CFWriteStream for writing byte streams. The CFNetwork framework defines an additional type of stream for reading responses to HTTP requests.

CFReadStream is “toll-free bridged” with its Cocoa Foundation counterpart, NSInputStream. This means that the Core Foundation type is interchangeable in function or method calls with the bridged Foundation object. Therefore, in a method where you see an NSInputStream * parameter, you can pass in a CFReadStreamRef, and in a function where you see a CFReadStreamRef parameter, you can pass in an NSInputStream instance. Note, however, that you may have either a delegate or callbacks but not both. See Toll-Free Bridged Types for more information on toll-free bridging.

CFStringTokenizer allows you to tokenize strings into words, sentences or paragraphs in a language-neutral way. It supports languages such as Japanese and Chinese that do not delimit words by spaces, as well as de-compounding German compounds. You can obtain Latin transcription for tokens. It also provides language identification API.